Workforce success
Some of the transferable skills that students in our program will be able to demonstrate include:
- Solving complex problems
- Organizing scientific data
- Form, test, and revise scientific hypotheses
- Using specialized scientific equipment
- Communicating technical ideas in written and verbal form
- Building conceptual models of physical systems
- Working in teams to execute large projects
- Effectively managing projects
- Capability to work independently
- Trained to use scientific programming
Career options by sector
The following occupations are some of the career options available to students with a degree in physics
- Financial analyst
- Manufacturing manager
- Laboratory technician
- Nuclear physicist
- Geophysicist
- Acoustics physicist
- Hydrologist
- Astronomer
- Lawyer
- Industrial hygienist
- Cardiac imaging researcher
- Chemical physicist
- Technical illustrator
- Astrophysicist
- Surveyor
- Aeronautical engineer
- Congressional researcher
- Laser technician
- Computer specialist
- Satellite data analyst
- Seismologist
- Meteorologist
- Scientific photographer
- Quality control manager
- Forensic scientist
- Automotive engineer
- Air traffic controller
- Environmental health specialist
- Optometrist
- Oceanographer
- Biophysicist
- Biomedical technician
- Science journalist
- Energy analyst